1514 John Sutherland

Constituency  :  Elgin  Burghs  1905-18

John  took  over  at  Elgin  Burghs  after  the  death  of  Alexander  Archer. he  had  an  esty  win  over  a  Tory.

John   was  educated  at  Edinburgh  University. He  was  a  partner  in  a  fish  curing  firm  and  a  recognised  expert  on  the  fishing  industry, He  was  Chairman  of  the  Scottish  Temperance  and  Social  Reform  Association. He  was  on  Banffshire  County  Council.

Unsurprisingly, most  of  his  parliamentary  interventions  were  on  fishing  questions.

John  crushed  his  Tory  opponent  in  1906 and  then  a  Liberal  Unionist  in  January  1910. He  was  unopposed  in  December  1910.

He  died  in  1918  aged  64.